Miniature Soft Drum Set - SOLD

This Miniature Soft Drum Set is a wonderful contemporary sculpture realized by Claes Oldenburg in 1969.

A complete set of nine sewn screenprinted elements on canvas (some with washline, wood, plastic buttons, rope, metal eyes screwsand, spray enamel) installed on a wood base covered by a screenprinted paper in colors. With rope and painted wooden stand.

Signed with initials and numbered in black ink on the bass drum, published by Multiples , New York (with their copyright stamp on the underside of the base). The black-ink stamp works as a certificate of authenticity.

From an edition of 200 specimens  (there were also 18 or 26 artist proofs).

A really fashionable Contemporary Pop sculpture  for your saloon, with the unmistakable sign of Claes Oldenburg !

In the same year in which the Museum of Modern Art of New York presented the burning star of Claes Oldenburg with a solo-exhibition, in 1969, Oldenburg was realizing the Miniature Soft Drum Set . In our case, it is not a colossal sculpture concerning the compulsory American relationship with food, but it deals with a soft three-dimensional musical instrument, a drum.

Only for who loves music, for the musicians, or for the contemporary art addicted!

Read Claes Oldenburg's Biography Online On Wallector.com!